Sadly, effort and commitment don't make points, and you have to doff your cap to the Town players in terms of the workrate and intensity they are putting in for the manager.

Seventy per cent-plus possession last week and no result, but my one worry from watching the highlights (I haven't seen the full match), is that there are lots of crosses going in, but the quality and accuracy are a little misguided.

Players are getting in wide positions and, no matter that Laurent Depoitre is there with three centre halves around him, they are still looking to deliver the ball into the box.

That is simply giving cheap possession away.

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Midfielders can't get into the box, or play in wide areas, unless there is some controlled possession in the build-up, so they can creep and creep and just be on the edge of the box ready to explode onto the end of a cross or a second ball.

We simply don't get enough bodies into the box, but that isn't down to lack of effort or people not wanting to be there.

The balls are simply being delivered every single opportunity, and that is not going to catch out any Premier League back four.

We have had our chances over the last few weeks and I have no doubt on or two of them will find the back of the net soon, but we do need to sort out our quality and composure in the final third.

At the moment, it simply isn't there.

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Three points against Southampton would give us all the perfect start to Christmas and I don't want to hear any of your doom and gloom on social media about 'we've lost again' or whatever might happen, this is a group of players who went to Manchester City and Chelsea last year and took points when they needed to.

As a fan, you turn up every Saturday and watch the team offer their lives - and Huddersfield Town under David Wagner do that every single week.

So let's raise the roof against Southampton and get ourselves out of the bottom three, then it's onwards and upwards into January when we get Mooy back and, hopefully, some attacking reinforcements,